The Terracotta Dog - Inspector Montalbano

Zusatztext One of fiction's greatest detectives and Camilleri is one of Europe's greatest crime writers Informationen zum Autor Andrea Camilleri was one of Italy’s most famous contemporary writers. The Inspector Montalbano series, which has sold over sixty-five million copies worldwide, has been translated into thirty-two languages and was adapted for Italian television, screened on BBC4. The Potter’s Field , the thirteenth book in the series, was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association’s International Dagger for the best crime novel translated into English. In addition to his phenomenally successful Inspector Montalbano series, he was also the author of the historical comic mysteries Hunting Season and The Brewer of Preston . He died in Rome in July 2019. Klappentext 'Tell me the truth.' 'At your command, Inspector.' 'Why did you choose me?' 'Because you, as you are showing me even now, are someone who understands things.' After a cloak-and-dagger exchange with an ageing mafioso, Inspector Montalbano is left haunted by the man's dying words, which lead him to a mountainside just west of Vigàta, where he unearths two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, watched over by a life-size terracotta dog. Heedless of personal danger, Montalbano's drive to solve this old crime forces him on a journey through Sicily's World War II history and to the dark heart of one family . . . 'A magnificent series of novels' Sunday Times 'The best company in crime fiction today' Guardian 'One of fiction's greatest detectives . . . utterly gripping' Daily Mirror Vorwort The second novel in Camilleri's savagely funny Sicilian crime series. Zusammenfassung The second novel in Camilleri's savagely funny Sicilian crime series.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Camilleri, Camilleri Andrea
• Assisted by: Stephen Sartarelli (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781529042047
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-4204-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Inspector Montalbano mysteries; Commissario Montalbano
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction in translation, Sicily, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, Comic (humorous) crime and mystery